Responsabilidade Social do Consumidor: conceituação e proposta de mensuração

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Casali, Richelita do Rosario Brito
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; Brasil; Administração; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Comportamento ético do consumidor; Responsabilidade social do consumidor; Pirataria de software; Ethical consumer behavior; Consumer social responsibility; Software pira-cy; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/3769

This study is focused on the ethical behavior of consumers in a broad perspective and under the expression Consumer Social Responsibility. This perspective, in the point of view of the marketing exchange system, has been neglected in academic research, since most such studies are dedicated to understand the offerer of the ex-change. The research is justified to the extent that the consumer is considered as one of the major agents of exchange system, with a potential of triggering unethical behavior that may disrupt the exchange system. It was developed a literature review addressing initially the subject ethics, from a macro point of view (as the general grounds of ethics) until issues in a micro sphere (emphasizing ethics applied in the context of marketing, the focus of our study). In addition, a theoretical construct about the Social Responsibility of the Consumer was conducted in order to understand how it was designed and operated by several authors over time. This process culminated in a reinterpretation of the construct through the integration of four dimensions de-fined (altruistic behavior, environmentally sustainable behavior, activist behavior and honest/ethical behavior). To enable the measurement of this construct, knowledge of the theory of scale development and of statistical procedures were applied to pro-pose the Consumer Social Responsibility Scale (ConSR Scale). The development of this scale of measurement required two data collections, the first with 202 students and just for the purpose of purifying the scale pool of items, and the second with 286 general consumers, with part of the data collected in two different Brazilian states, and part in the online version). The second sample had confirmatory purposes and allowed the consolidation of ConSR Scale in terms of reliability and validity. Addition-ally, the subject software piracy was studied and used as the empirical context for the first test of ConSR Scale, what required its inclusion as a topic in the literature re-view. Overall, the results indicated that the consumer social responsibility has very little influence, both in intention and practice of software piracy, and being honest be-havior dimension was the only one that presented statistically significantly influence. The theoretical and practical implications of research results were presented at and of the study, as well as limitations and recommendations for further research involv-ing the subjects here analyzed.